With cigarette prices at $14.55 a pack, New York smokers shell out around $4,000 each year, prompting health experts to stress the importance of considering both health risks and costs.

New York City’s Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio backed five legislative proposals designed to reduce the number of smokers in the city by 160,000 over the next three years. If passed, the bills would ...

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Paying $6.85 in state and city taxes on a pack of cigarettes? Fuhgeddaboudit. Cigarettes sold legally in New York City are among the highest taxed in the United States. But a Rutgers University study ...